I know there's already a "Dalite" thread but I can see it hasn't been touched in years, so I decided to start this one where it would more likely be seen.

I'm caught up in a bit of a dilemma. I now realize that I made a BIG mistake buying a Dalite video spectra screen for home theater use. The first time I fired up my PJ I noticed the screen had vertical bands showing on the right half of the screen that were irritating. I called Dalite and they graciously offered to send me a new screen and roller which I would have to change out in the case… which I did… and low and behold the new screen was even worse than the original. This time the vertical bands covered the whole screen, not just the right half. (I should also note that I have 2 screens and 2 PJ’s so it was not hard to narrow the problem down to a screen issue).

I called Dalite again, and they agreed to set me up with a completely different screen and credit the price of the Video Spectra towards it, which was cool of them to do. My dilemma is which screen to choose. The more I read, the more confused I get. I would like to stick with at least a 1.3 gain cuz I do watch a lot of 3D. The Cinema Vision 1.3 gain sounds nice but some have said the gain is over rated and the colors tend to suffer some.

I’m using a BenQ W7000, wanting a 110” 16:9 screen and ambient like is not an issue. So, what do you think Dalite fans (or not)? If you were in a similar circumstance, with a budget of a grand, and you HAD to choose a Dalite screen, which one would you choose?

I have thought about that material. I've read some good reviews and some not so good. I asked dalite about that and they told me that HP would not be a good choice with the 2000 lumens PJ I have. They said it would tend to hot spot, and my PJ would need to be lowered. I'm also conceerned about sparkleys. The video spectra has sparkleys and I don't much like it. Does any one have an HP out there? What do you think?

I have thought about that material. I've read some good reviews and some not so good. I asked dalite about that and they told me that HP would not be a good choice with the 2000 lumens PJ I have. They said it would tend to hot spot, and my PJ would need to be lowered. I'm also conceerned about sparkleys. The video spectra has sparkleys and I don't much like it. Does any one have an HP out there? What do you think?

people who own it here says it doesn't hotspot, and you can always turn the brightness down on projectors. plenty of the big enthusiasts who take insane screen shots and do comparisons/reviews here use it too like zombie, coderguy etc.

people who own it here says it doesn't hotspot, and you can always turn the brightness down on projectors. plenty of the big enthusiasts who take insane screen shots and do comparisons/reviews here use it too like zombie, coderguy etc.

The current HP 2.4 has had issues with banding.. not sure wtf Dalite is doing but they need to fix the problem. The HP is a specialty screen that works well with under powered (low light) projectors and to allow a bright projector to light up a really big screen. Also with 3D it will give you a really nice image on a reasonably sized screen. To get the gain the projector has to be just above eye level, otherwise you will have a gain of about 1.
If you can make that change you can have really good 3d. You may need to close the iris and set up a 2D memory setting with lower contrast setting or maybe add an ND filter if it is to bright. I do not have a realy bright projector nor do I have the new HP, I am using the old 2.8 HP with a Planar 8150 and prior to that a Mitsubishi HC3000, both on low lamp.
Screen shots don't really tell you much but I happen to snap this with an old 4MegPixle camera last night from 14' back of 110 HP 2.8, projector just over my left shoulder. As you can see, no sparkles.. but I this is the original HP most everyone loved.

Image looks nice and smooth, Doug and colors look great! It is a tempting material. This "banding" issue with some of dalite's materials is something I have read about before in other customer reviews. Dalite did admit that this is a common problem with "another one of their materials" (other than video spectra), but they didn't say which one. This is clearly an issue they really do need to resolve. I'm left feeling totally apprehensive to get any dalite screens, period. Even though their customer service was great, I really don't want to go through the complaining and returning hassle again.

Fortunately dalite just informed me they will be refunding me the full purchase price once they receive the screen. So I think I'm going to go with something different.

carada got here today. I have already put it together but it isn't hung up because I haven't built the fake wall it is going on and the projector doesn't get here until tomorrow. But so far what I've seen it's very nice. Can't wait to see projector on it